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> it's a country that in many ways, we have to set up -- what kind of planning that went into chris stevens. is that all true? you can't put the piece of puzzle together even now. >> you peal layers back, and you gather more intelligence. >> of the many absurdities that are hurled around in this election season, the notion that the president is an apologyist where he ordered an ppds historic number of drone strikes, why is the president not been more forceful and that he's an appeaser of some sort and to what degree is he worried about alienating those on the left that have not discussed that kind of strategy very much. >> i don't think -- look, i think the reason the president doesn't deal with this notion of being an appeaser is because i think other than mitt romney and a handful of republicans it's not a narrative that i think most people in this country believe. barack obama has the quintessential american story. and as you mentioned, we have a policy that has taken the fight to the terrorists. we didn't invade the wrong country in iraq. we've gone back into afghanistan to make sure th
> it's a country that in many ways, we have to set up -- what kind of planning that went into chris stevens. is that all true? you can't put the piece of puzzle together even now. >> you peal layers back, and you gather more intelligence. >> of the many absurdities that are hurled around in this election season, the notion that the president is an apologyist where he ordered an ppds historic number of drone strikes, why is the president not been more forceful and that he's an...
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we'll be downtown at the steven p. clark building where hundreds and thousands of people will come and cast their votes and 30 minutes south to south and we'll vote there and then we're going to drive maybe 45 minutes to an hour north to ft. lauderdale mall as they cast their votes and then we cast their vote from there to a rally and have actually cast their early votes. >> as we do this, i want to be clear, it's nonpartisan. we all have our views but you have over 150 ministers involved and all parties. this is nonpartisan. we're just telling people to come out and vote and use their vote as we do this on saturday and sunday. >> absolutely. because when the governor and the republican-led house and senate decided to shorten the early voting, it cut everyone, whether you're a democrat, be republican, or independent. we're fighting for everyone's rights to be able to vote and what they did, they took from us that final sunday before the general election because they understood that that's when we really mobilized our p
we'll be downtown at the steven p. clark building where hundreds and thousands of people will come and cast their votes and 30 minutes south to south and we'll vote there and then we're going to drive maybe 45 minutes to an hour north to ft. lauderdale mall as they cast their votes and then we cast their vote from there to a rally and have actually cast their early votes. >> as we do this, i want to be clear, it's nonpartisan. we all have our views but you have over 150 ministers involved...
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in the case of libya, for example, the tragedy with ambassad ambassador stevens notwithstanding no american troops died in libya when we moved in to help remove "the dictator" gadhafi. >> without congressional approval i might add. >> if romney wants an argument about the need for a weaker executive, he's permitted to do so. i don't think that's playing where he wants to play. i think that, you know, where obama can be criticized is certainly on libya in terms of the attack on libya and benghazi. i was in libya for a month this summer, including a week in benghazi and the problem in libya is there's no sfablt there at all. there's no police force. there's nothing to prevent someone from an attack on any government facility. the obama administration should have known. they should have had more security there, and he's very vulnerable in that regard. whether or not it matters to voters pondering pocketbook issues remains to be seen, though. >> i'm thinking back a few weeks to the run-up to the first debate in denver. we heard a lot of voices saying, don't get too excited. debates don't matter
in the case of libya, for example, the tragedy with ambassad ambassador stevens notwithstanding no american troops died in libya when we moved in to help remove "the dictator" gadhafi. >> without congressional approval i might add. >> if romney wants an argument about the need for a weaker executive, he's permitted to do so. i don't think that's playing where he wants to play. i think that, you know, where obama can be criticized is certainly on libya in terms of the...
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spontaneous or suggested that the protest and the assault on our diplomats and the killing actually of chris stevens was spontaneous and their later assessment that it was opportunistic, they wanted to do, it they saw their chance with what was going on in cairo, the anger of the people over there about the video? >> i think the honest answer is they still aren't exactly sure how this came together. the official used with me the phrase a flash mob with weapons, but it's clear that the group included serious hard core terrorists that were probably member of the al qaeda in magrab, a group of very extremist people in benghazi. there were people who were unarmed who were kind of along as looters who wandered in and just took stuff. it was kind of a rag tag group, why they think it wasn't as coordinated as some reports suggested. i think one point for me, chris, as somebody who follows intelligence is these guys are assembly shards, different fragments, and they don't all fit, and they sometimes contradict each other and when things like this get politicized, as this did so extraordinarily in the debate
spontaneous or suggested that the protest and the assault on our diplomats and the killing actually of chris stevens was spontaneous and their later assessment that it was opportunistic, they wanted to do, it they saw their chance with what was going on in cairo, the anger of the people over there about the video? >> i think the honest answer is they still aren't exactly sure how this came together. the official used with me the phrase a flash mob with weapons, but it's clear that the...
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and this from steven hayes of the weekly standard, which i think we should talk about. he writes in the magazine, the man suspected of organizing the attack on the u.s. consulate spent two leisurely hours sipping a strawberry frap on a patio and boasted he wasn't even questioned by the united states. it raises an obvious question. why is it more than a month after the attack a reporter can spend more than two hours with the alleged mastermind and no u.s. agent has approached him? >> well, by the way, president obama still did take out osama bin laden, and there's no question about that. and the leadership of al qaeda in many ways has been decimated, has been severely beat back. that doesn't mean that al qaeda has disappeared from the world, and the administration has never claimed such a thing. no question process has been made. it's chaos on the ground. for every report about one group participating, there's another report that it wasn't organized, it was a terrorist group but not necessarily linked to al qaeda. there is so much confusing information. and the reason th
and this from steven hayes of the weekly standard, which i think we should talk about. he writes in the magazine, the man suspected of organizing the attack on the u.s. consulate spent two leisurely hours sipping a strawberry frap on a patio and boasted he wasn't even questioned by the united states. it raises an obvious question. why is it more than a month after the attack a reporter can spend more than two hours with the alleged mastermind and no u.s. agent has approached him? >> well,...
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so security, we have seen the cables now from ambassador stevens saying on august 8th in a cable called guns of august, how bad security was, asking for more bodyguards. september 10th, again, warning about security. the next day, of course, the fatal attack. security failures and intelligence analysis, a failure of analysis afterwards? >> i'm not sure you can equate the two. i think on the security side, at least from the state department's perspective, certainly didn't analyze the threat correctly. if they went ahead and denied extra coverage and think about it, lots of threat streams going into 9/11 this year from al qaeda in the magrab, we had al sharia, a growing group who said they wanted to be successful on a western target. all of that including, by the way, not one but two strikes on that consulate in months prior to it should have led even the newest intelligence analyst for the state department to come to the conclusion hey, listen, this is a dangerous place, the ambassador doesn't feel comfortable, we need more security for them. you're not going to build a place in a couple
so security, we have seen the cables now from ambassador stevens saying on august 8th in a cable called guns of august, how bad security was, asking for more bodyguards. september 10th, again, warning about security. the next day, of course, the fatal attack. security failures and intelligence analysis, a failure of analysis afterwards? >> i'm not sure you can equate the two. i think on the security side, at least from the state department's perspective, certainly didn't analyze the...
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and we just saw these cables on friday from darrell issa that ambassador stevens asked for more help, asked for more bodyguards, asked for more security. >> you know, he spoke to this last week in the debate. i'm sure it's going to be a topic tonight. but i think that he'll say, look. you know, this investigation is ongoing. and we are working it hard. we want to get to the bottom of what happened so that we can make sure it never happens again, but we can also bring those who killed four american people to justice. so i think that, you know, one of the things that i found interesting is darrell issa dumped out all of those documents. and it occurred to me that, you know, dumping that out the friday before a foreign policy debate was really all about politics. and the politics were set by mitt romney on the day of that tragedy when he came out and shot from the hip and before he had any facts blamed the united states. and blamed the president. and you know, he set the tone for his party. he said, okay, go ahead and play politics with this. as a result, those documents that were releas
and we just saw these cables on friday from darrell issa that ambassador stevens asked for more help, asked for more bodyguards, asked for more security. >> you know, he spoke to this last week in the debate. i'm sure it's going to be a topic tonight. but i think that he'll say, look. you know, this investigation is ongoing. and we are working it hard. we want to get to the bottom of what happened so that we can make sure it never happens again, but we can also bring those who killed four...